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# Using Team Development

# Using Team Development {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated January 30, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Using team development within your instance to compare instances, push or pull record versions, or view the team development dashboard.

## Overview of Team Development {#using-team-development__cf-using-parent-workflow}

Team Development provides the following features:

* Branching operations, including pushing and pulling record versions between instances.
* The ability to compare a development instance to other development instances.
* A central dashboard for all Team Development activities.
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* [Code reviews](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/zFiUacUKVTbPQrGma_BwSg "Team Development administrators can require that pushes undergo code review before accepting pushes.")
* [Code review notifications](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/B1g3fVLBQ5~KdSVd1T5HnQ "You must enable email notifications on the instance requiring code review for that instance to send code review notifications.")
* [Code review workflow](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/lAlozQR3hACBwCX4Biqc1g "The Team Development Code Review workflow manages how changes are pushed to the parent.")
* [Exclusion policies](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/OxuNvGth8KknNJj2eih24Q "You can exclude certain files from change tracking by creating an exclusion policy.")
* [Instance hierarchies](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/3AdQHLTDiiAL~1nRILt9tA "Team Development allows you to set up a distributed version control system between multiple ServiceNow instances where each instance acts as a source repository, or branch.")
* [Pulls and pushes](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/T38RYRZ4GFo9qOUopuVdYA "Developers synchronize their instances to the parent instance by pulling and pushing versions of customized records and resolving collisions between versions on the parent instance and the development instance.")
* [Team Development process](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/UeG3XHf0Jg20hcKeHcXV2w "The basic Team Development process sets up the instance hierarchy, grants developer access rights, manages the movement of development changes from development instances to test instances, and promotes applications to the production instance.")
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